The Seeds of Doom

And there's plenty of them sort of here and there.

But they are the equivalent, I suppose, of moments like in The Seeds of Doom where the guy is gradually being transformed into a plant.

Yes.

And it's sort of, oh, what's going to happen next? It's nightmare fuel.

Well, absolutely, yeah.

You got things like, the major things like, uh, Pyramids of Mars, which we already talked about, my favorite story, which is The Seeds of Doom as well.

Huge stonking classics.

Terror of the Zygons and-

So there is a few sort of underloved classics here.

But essentially, you know, if you are... wondering why my top 10 doesn't include Unearthly Child, The Web Planet, The Space Museum, The Time Medal, The Power of the Daleks, The Underwater Menace, The Tomb of the Cybermen, Ice Warriors, The Web of Fear, Free from the Deep, The Dominators, The Mind Robber, The Seeds of Doom, The Spearhead from Space, The Ambassadors of Death, Colony in Space, The Demons, The Sea Devils, The Three Doctors, The Green Death, Planet of the Spiders, Genesis of the Daleks, The Pyramids of Mars, The Deadly Assassin, The Face of Evil, The Horror Fraggle Rock, Underworld, Invasion of Time, Armageddon Factor, Creature from the Pit, It's because you can find it somewhere else.

Oh, but can I just, please? The Happiness Patrol is your number one favourite Doctor Who story of all time, isn't it? Even though you're caging yourself to not be able to say that.

But, you know, we've spent three hours per episode talking about that.

Oh, God almighty.

Do

you mean the seeds of doom?

No, if you're on the moon, it's seeds of doom.

Now, in terms of Doctor Who, you've worked on shows set and fired in space.

You've done ones in modern times, like The Seeds of Doom, which was also set in Antarctica and in England.

And then you've done in the past with Talents of Wen Chang.

If you've got to design something, do you prefer the space where it's total freedom, the now or the past?

Seventh, The Deadly Assassin.

Sixth, The Seeds of Doom.

Fifth, The Robots of Death.

Fourth, City of Death.

And season 12 was going to follow exactly the same format.

And so was season 13.

Season 13, if, you know, Nicholas Courtney had been available, would have had the android invasion and the seeds of doom were both going to be unit stories and Terror of the Zygons would have been in season 12.

And it

What have you got for number two? [gentle music] Best classic two.

The Seeds of Doom.

Doom.

Okay.